offended - Story 95808 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. The fact that his father, who had always seemed so steady and reliable, had kept such a secret made David feel intensely betrayed. He found himself avoiding his father, responding to his calls with curtness. He began to isolate himself, spending hours in his darkened apartment, the curtains drawn. He canceled all his plans, and the silence of the space only amplified the sense of profound, personal hurt.

Emotion: offended

Cluster: Anger / Hostility

PC1 (Valence): -1.20 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.44

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion offended. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 offended stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the offended emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the offended vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`l`	0.348
`愤`	0.266
`😡`	0.260
`🤬`	0.259
`骂`	0.257

Suppressed:

`adventurous`	-0.225
`давно`	-0.219
`soon`	-0.210
`🤩`	-0.207
`warmly`	-0.203